Long Beach State setter Aidan Knipe and his father, the team's coach, have worked to avoid hints of favoritism while pushing to win a national title.
It’s the thing everyone always asks about. It used to weigh on Aidan Knipe. Some aspects of being a coach’s son are unavoidable. But for the Long Beach State setter, it was never about the external pressure of playing for his father, head coach Alan Knipe. It was what he would do under that weight. “I just had to play for who I was,” Aidan said, “and prove that I belonged here.” Despite any outside scrutiny, the redshirt senior setter has cemented his place in the Long Beach State record books.
Despite the separation behind the scenes, outside assumptions of favoritism are unavoidable in many father-son dynamics. If Simon Torwie saw a son playing for his father on any other team, the Long Beach State senior middle blocker said he might have the same ideas many internet critics have of Aidan’s position on the court.
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